CKEditor Biweekly for February 16, 2016

Wojtek Cichoń

Connecting the dots between marketing, social media, community management and customer support. Wojtek likes exercising lyrical calisthenics, and taking online programming courses that he never finishes.

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2016-02-16

Here is the latest CKEditor update. Find out more about our progress with CKEditor 4 and 5 as well as the Editor Recommendations Project we have launched on GitHub. Read on for more!

CKEditor in Review

We have released CKEditor 4.5.7 and we continue to work on CKEditor versions 4.5.8 and 4.6 at the same time focusing our attention on CKEditor 5.

CKEditor 4

We are currently looking at the following issues:

Typing Japanese with Windows IME on IE 11 not firing change events (#14329).

CKEditor 5

Two weeks ago we closed the Tree View implementation (which is the lower part of the diagram below) along with the Tree Data model and Batches.

We also finished working on other pieces of the puzzle, namely the Position Mapper and some basic data processors. We started working on the Converters and prototyping first features, which also triggered discussions about commands and schema. This means that in a couple of weeks the puzzle will be complete and first features will start to appear.

However, for the features to be usable we also need the UI. Therefore, we started working on the first creators and editables, the toolbar and the UI library in general. We also made some improvements to the MVC framework along the road.

Other Projects

CKFinder

We finished some major language files reorganization to make language strings much more tidy and easier to localize. A completely new Bosnian localization was provided by axterbach (thanks!) and will be publicly available in the next release. If you would like to help us translate CKFinder or improve an existing translation, have a look into the dedicated ckfinder-translations GitHub repository. Your help will be much appreciated!

Speaking of releases, CKFinder 3 for ASP.NET is on track, with some last minute code polishing, lots of testing and documentation being worked on right now. Stay tuned for a beta release soon!

Editor Recommendations Project

We have launched the Editor Recommendations Project on GitHub. This project aims to solve a few problems currently faced by both editor developers and implementers who want to introduce content editing into their systems.

Although the project was created by the CKEditor team and is intended to help in CKEditor 5 development, it is being written in an editor-neutral way and other projects can certainly benefit from it, too.